The Honors Program

The University of   

Tulsa

  

           The Program 

The Honors Program proceeds on the assumption that students must take an active role in learning and faculty must encourage intellectual independence in their students. Students in the program are not passive recipients of inherited wisdom and Honors Program professors are not content to leave established beliefs unexamined. Participation in program thus requires a generous spirit of commitment and courage on the part of both students and faculty. The close working relationships that develop between them are essential to the success of the Honors Program and are among the most rewarding college experiences. 

Honors Program students have diverse aspirations and may major in any academic discipline offered by the university. Still, they are united by their love of ideas and conversation and by their conviction that the present cannot be understood without confronting the great ideas of the past. The Honors Program is a good place for students in engineering, the sciences, and business to bring breadth and depth to their education. It enables students in the fine and performing arts to locate their own artistic efforts in historical context. And it offers students in the humanities and the social sciences a chance to integrate their studies, to see how ideas and institutions emerge and influence each other.

 

The Program

The Curriculum

Visiting Scholars Program

Our Graduates

Honors House

Admission and Scholarship Information

Honors Program Application

 

Dale Benediktson, Acting Director
Chapman Hall 111
University of Tulsa
800 South Tucker Drive
Tulsa, OK  74104
(918) 631-2547
dale-benediktson@utulsa.edu

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

What Honors Program Students say….

"The Honors Program gave me invaluable exposure to perspectives, teachers, and classmates I would not otherwise have experienced.  I especially enjoyed and benefited from the program's focus on rigorous discussion and critical analysis, as opposed to rote learning.  Throughout my Honors education, the sharing of ideas with interested and interesting people was key.  Finally, the opportunity to conduct a structured senior research project was a challenging and rewarding capstone to my study at TU, and it helped me pull together the investigative and critical skills I had developed through the program.  Simply put, the Honors Program puts intelligent, inspired students together and challenges them to grow in a way that is not possible in more standardized environments."  

Ann Vernon, BS Biology
British Marshall Scholar